Routledge Handbook of Disaster Response and Recovery

The Handbook of Disaster Response and Recovery covers the two post-disaster stages of the disaster cycle and presents a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of their many considerations. Organised into two key parts, Response and Recovery", this handbook provides the history, theory, methods, debates, and questions of the stages of response and recovery. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, the myriad topics explored in this handbook include Search and Rescue, myths related to disaster response, the evolution of recovery response, and the relationship between disaster recovery and mental health. The contributors discuss these issues both globally as well as country - and disaster specific, and offer readers a comprehensive handbook on the two post-disaster stages of response and recovery. This book is an essential guide and reference not only for researchers engaged in the disasters management cycle, but also for undergraduate and graduate teaching, for policy makers, disaster managers, international and bilateral agencies, and volunteer organizations engaged in disaster response. Using a transdisciplinary approach, numerous topics are examined both globally as well as country- and disaster-specific in order to address the various scales and geographic contexts in which disaster response and recovery occur.